GoGuides Trust Record

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Current Trust Summary

This GoGuides Trust Record summarizes the current measured state for brainpickings.org.

Trust Status

Policy blocked
First recorded by GoGuides: 2026-01-08 23:52:50

Public Eligibility

This domain is not eligible for positive trust display or machine-readable trust use.

Policy Reason

restricted essay assignment
Code: restricted_essay_assignment

Historical Grade

Not Available / Historical Rank 73

Crawl Freshness

Fresh
Last crawled 1 hour ago

Domain Provenance Record

11 measurements across 140 days

Stability Window

106 days

Trust Record

This domain is policy blocked. This Trust Record is shown for transparency and audit purposes only.

Policy blocked. Trust activation, badge publication, and positive machine-readable trust use are not available while this decision is active.

Canonical URL

https://brainpickings.org/

Matched URL

https://brainpickings.org/

AI Rank

Grade

Not Available

Domain Provenance Timeline

Independent GoGuides observations showing when this domain was first recorded, how long it has been observed, and when its recorded state changed.

Observed Web & Network State

Objective state captured by GoGuides during its domain observation. These fields describe what GoGuides observed and are separate from AI Rank or Grade.

HTTP Status

200

Observed Final URL

https://www.themarginalian.org/

Observed Public IP Addresses

104.21.19.151, 172.67.186.199, 2606:4700:3030::ac43:bac7, 2606:4700:3035::6815:1397

Observed Nameservers

carla.ns.cloudflare.com, maciej.ns.cloudflare.com

Robots Access

Allowed
allowed

Page Robots Directive

max-image-preview:large

TLS Certificate

CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US
Valid 2026-08-07 14:40:32 to 2026-11-05 15:40:22

Observed Provenance States

10 stored states across 16 observations

Observed State Changes

Content: 7
Robots: 0
DNS: 0
TLS certificate: 0
Final URL: 0

Observed Evidence Details

These are objective observations recorded by the GoGuides crawler. They are separate from GoGuides AI Rank, Grade, or other interpretation.

Observation Type
Full Page Observation

Requested URL
https://brainpickings.org/

Final URL
https://www.themarginalian.org/

HTTP Status
200

Redirect Count
1

Content Type
text/html; charset=UTF-8

Response Bytes
118,885

Canonical URL
Not observed

Observed Page Title
The Marginalian – Marginalia on our search for meaning.

Robots Access
Allowed

Robots Reason
allowed

Meta Robots
max-image-preview:large

X-Robots-Tag
Not observed

Observed Public IP Address(es)
104.21.19.151, 172.67.186.199, 2606:4700:3030::ac43:bac7, 2606:4700:3035::6815:1397

Observed Nameservers
carla.ns.cloudflare.com, maciej.ns.cloudflare.com

TLS Certificate Issuer
CN=WE1,O=Google Trust Services,C=US

TLS Valid From
2026-08-07 14:40:32

TLS Valid Until
2026-11-05 15:40:22

First Observed
2026-08-15 13:24:10

Last Observed
2026-08-15 13:24:10

Identical-State Observations
1

▶ Show Cryptographic Evidence & SHA-256 Hashes ▼ Cryptographic Evidence & SHA-256 Hashes

                Title SHA-256

                b3aa83b7b41e7a53b80ddd15639aac1588071a9dfb2639abf6056bab24897749            

                Content SHA-256

                8c6ab139320fafa66a11ff5f7b1b61cdeb8565fa6be678a0cb670dfce7522d56            

                HTTP Body SHA-256

                dd3c6ab8818d3453b8e007b4e377b6c41904be90cca69c9b21c55873e5937d79            

                robots.txt SHA-256

                24a683c27b3601c32f13b13adef1dda433084ed33debbb2cce4e14762fc720be            

                DNS State SHA-256

                bb53e680234a10642bb2426373f40c80c8c8e599c2fa02a83b15df6b9be7094e            

                TLS Certificate SHA-256

                43d41c2cbb39ab584c4ddb42a9d8c780d8cde080996da6321b02bdc32d1695a9            

                Complete Provenance State SHA-256

                31830572c35d438c8b6896e482d82d0e065a0579a6afaa5a16da65e551edfe67

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First Seen by GoGuides

2026-01-08 23:52:50

Last Crawled by GoGuides

2026-08-15 13:24:10 (1 hour ago)

Last Record Refresh

2026-08-15 14:29:55 (just now)

Record Refresh Freshness

Fresh
Last refreshed just now

Stored Measurement Age

140 days

Trust Record Age

218 days ago

Stored Trust Measurements

Measurement Span

140 days across 11 stored measurements

Stability Window

106 days

Current Trust State Since

2026-04-30 17:56:20 (106 days ago)

Days Since Last Change

106 days

Rank/Algo State Changes

Trust Record Fingerprint (SHA-256)

df1b641e8948df636f4430302e2451d5297f7a9092465f1648c116f105e55b4d

Computed from: matched URL + rank + last crawled + algorithm version. This identifies the GoGuides trust record state; it is not domain-owner verification.

Provenance Observation History

This timeline shows when GoGuides recorded this trust state, including rank, crawl timing, algorithm version, and verification fingerprint.

Trust Favicon Not Available

This record is policy blocked and is shown for transparency only. GoGuides does not publish a positive trust favicon for this domain while this decision is active.

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